This Privacy Policy elucidates Our methodologies and protocols regarding the acquisition, utilization, and divulgence of Your information during Your engagement with the Service, and illuminates Your entitlements to privacy under the law.

We leverage Your Personal data to optimize and refine the Service. By engaging with the Service, You acknowledge and consent to the aggregation and utilization of data in alignment with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

Words capitalized herein possess designated meanings outlined under the ensuing stipulations. The ensuing definitions are universally applicable, regardless of grammatical number.

Definitions

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy:

• Account denotes a distinct profile established for You to access our Service or its components.
• Affiliate references an entity that commands, is governed by, or shares common governance with a party, where “governance” denotes ownership exceeding 50% of the shares, equity stake, or other securities entitling voting privileges for the appointment of directors or equivalent managing authorities.
• Company (alternatively referred to as “the Company”, “We”, “Us”, or “Our” in this document) pertains to Uchef Inc., domiciled at UChef Inc.
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  320 North Service Road West
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• Cookies encompass diminutive files deployed on Your computing device, mobile apparatus, or any other hardware by a website, encapsulating the specifics of Your browsing history on that platform amidst its multifarious applications.
• Country pertains to Ontario, Canada.
• Device denotes any apparatus capable of accessing the Service, such as a personal computer, smartphone, or digital slate.
• Personal Data encapsulates any information germane to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service alludes to the digital interface known as Uchef, accessible via http://www.uchef.ca.
• Service Provider designates any natural or juridical person tasked with processing data on behalf of the Company. This encompasses third-party entities or individuals retained by the Company to streamline the Service, furnish the Service on behalf of the Company, provide ancillary services integral to the Service, or aid the Company in scrutinizing utilization patterns of the Service.
• Third-party Social Media Service embraces any website or social networking platform through which a User may log in or establish an account to avail the Service.
• Usage Data encapsulates data acquired automatically, either generated by the utilization of the Service or emanating from the infrastructure of the Service itself (for instance, the duration of a page visit).

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

During Your engagement with Our Service, We may solicit certain personally identifiable information aimed at facilitating communication or identification. Such information may encompass, but is not restricted to:

• Email address
• First and last name
• Telephone number
• Physical address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Usage Data

Usage Data is collated automatically during Service utilization. This category may encompass details such as Your Device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, pages visited on Our Service, the temporal context of visits, and the duration spent on specific pages, alongside unique device identifiers and supplementary diagnostic data.

When accessing the Service via a mobile device, We may automatically accrue certain information, including but not confined to, the nature of the mobile device employed, its unique identifier, the IP address linked to Your mobile device, the mobile operating system utilized, the nature of the mobile internet browser harnessed, in conjunction with unique device identifiers and additional diagnostic data. Additionally, We may compile information transmitted by Your browser upon visitation of Our Service or upon accessing the Service via a mobile device.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

Uchef provides the facility to create an account and log in to the Service via various Third-party Social Media Services, including but not limited to Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit. Should You opt to register through or authorize access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may aggregate Personal data already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service account, such as Your appellation, email address, activities, or contact list linked with said account.

You may also have the opportunity to share supplementary information with Us via Your Third-Party Social Media Service account. Should You elect to provide such information and Personal Data during registration or otherwise, You accord the Company permission to employ, distribute, and retain it in alignment with this Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

To facilitate Service optimization and analytics, We employ Cookies and akin tracking technologies to monitor Service activity and amass specific data. Such technologies encompass beacons, tags, and scripts crafted to collate and scrutinize information, thereby enhancing and analyzing Our Service.

The employed technologies encompass:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies: These are diminutive files stored on Your Device. You retain the prerogative to instruct Your browser to rebuff all Cookies or to flag the dispatch of a Cookie. However, declining Cookies may impede Your access to certain segments of Our Service. Absent browser configuration adjustments signifying Cookie repudiation, Our Service may utilize Cookies.
• Web Beacons: Certain segments of Our Service and Our emails may incorporate minuscule electronic files recognized as web beacons, also denoted as clear gifs, pixel tags, or single-pixel gifs. These entities enable the Company to ascertain the volume of users visiting specific pages or accessing emails, alongside other associated website statistics, such as assessing section popularity and validating system and server integrity.

Cookies may be classified as “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies endure on Your personal computer or mobile device subsequent to cessation of online activity, whereas Session Cookies are purged once Your web browser session concludes. Refer to the Free Privacy Policy website article for comprehensive insights into Cookies.

Our utilization of both Session and Persistent Cookies is pursuant to the ensuing objectives:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies: These are indispensable for rendering Services available through the Website, facilitating Your access to Service features, and authenticating user credentials. Essential Cookies preclude fraudulent account usage and are exclusively wielded for Service provision.
• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies: These Persistent Cookies determine user acceptance of Cookie usage on the Website.
• Functionality Cookies: These Persistent Cookies memorialize user preferences and choices, such as login credentials or language preference. Functionality Cookies personalize Your browsing experience, sparing You the need to recurrently input preferences.

For an exhaustive exposition on the Cookies We employ and Your prerogatives concerning Cookies, consult Our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of Our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may harness Personal Data for multifarious objectives:

• Service Provision and Maintenance: Facilitating and perpetuating Service functionality, including monitoring Service utilization.
• Account Management: Overseeing Your registration as a Service user, thereby granting access to diverse Service functionalities.
• Contractual Fulfillment: Executing, adhering to, and consummating purchase contracts for products, items, or services procured through the Service, alongside administering ancillary contracts entered into with Us via the Service.
• Communication: Corresponding with You via email, telephone calls, Short Message Service (SMS), or equivalent electronic mediums, such as push notifications from mobile applications. These communications may encompass updates or informational messages pertinent to Service functionalities, products, or contracted services, including security updates when deemed requisite or reasonable.
• Information Dissemination: Furnishing news, exclusive offers, and general information concerning goods, services, or events analogous to those previously acquired or inquired about, unless You have opted against receiving such communications.
• Request Management: Addressing and handling Your inquiries directed toward Us.
• Business Transactions: Utilizing Your information to evaluate or effectuate mergers, divestitures, restructurings, reorganizations, dissolutions, or other asset sales or transfers, whether as an ongoing enterprise or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings, where Personal Data about Service users held by Us may be transferred.
• Other Purposes: Utilizing Your information for additional purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, assessing the efficacy of promotional campaigns, and enhancing Our Service, products, services, marketing endeavors, and user experience.

The Company may share Your personal information in the ensuing scenarios:

• Service Providers: We may disclose Your personal information to Service Providers tasked with monitoring and analyzing Service utilization or contacting You.
• Business Transfers: Your personal information may be shared or transferred in connection with, or during negotiations for, mergers, sale of Company assets, financing arrangements, or acquisition of all or part of Our business by another entity.
• Affiliates: Your information may be shared with Our affiliates, contingent upon these entities adhering to this Privacy Policy. Affiliates encompass Our parent company, subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or companies under common control with Us.
• Business Partners: We may share Your information with business partners to extend certain products, services, or promotions to You.
• Other Users: Information shared by You or otherwise disseminated in public areas may be viewed by all users and distributed publicly. In the event of interaction with other users or registration via a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on said platform may view Your profile, appellation, pictures, and activity descriptions. Similarly, other users may peruse Your activity descriptions, engage in communication with You, and peruse Your profile.
• With Your Consent: Your personal information may be disclosed for other purposes with Your explicit consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company retains Your Personal Data solely for the duration requisite to fulfill the objectives outlined in this Privacy Policy. We retain and utilize Your Personal Data to the extent indispensable for adherence to legal obligations, dispute resolution, and enforcement of legal agreements and policies.

Furthermore, We retain Usage Data for internal analysis endeavors. Usage Data is generally retained for abbreviated periods, unless its retention serves to bolster security or enhance Service functionality, or We are legally compelled to prolong such retention.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your data, inclusive of Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operational sites and any other locations where the parties involved in processing are situated. Consequently, this information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located beyond Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data protection regulations may deviate from those in Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, coupled with Your submission of such information, signifies Your concurrence with the aforesaid transfer. The Company takes all reasonably necessary measures to ensure the secure treatment of Your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. No data transfer shall occur to an entity or jurisdiction sans adequate controls in place, encompassing the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You reserve the prerogative to request deletion of, or assistance in deleting, Personal Data collected by Us. Our Service may afford You the capability to expunge specific information about You from within the Service. Moreover, You can update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by accessing Your Account settings or by contacting Us directly.

It's imperative to note that certain information may necessitate retention owing to legal obligations or legitimate bases. Thus, We may retain such information notwithstanding deletion requests.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions: Should the Company engage in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We undertake to furnish notice prior to the transfer, ensuring Your Personal Data remains subject to a congruent Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement: In certain exigencies, the Company may disclose Your Personal Data if mandated by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities (e.g., courts or government agencies).

Other Legal Obligations: The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in good faith, when necessary to comply with legal obligations, safeguard and defend Company rights or property, prevent or investigate potential wrongdoing associated with the Service, or protect the personal safety of Service users or the general populace, thereby shielding against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data

While We strive to employ commercially acceptable means to safeguard Your Personal Data, it's pivotal to acknowledge that no method of data transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is entirely impregnable. Consequently, We cannot unequivocally guarantee the absolute security of Your Personal Data.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not cater to individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from minors under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. In the event We ascertain the inadvertent collection of Personal Data from individuals under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent, We shall promptly take measures to expunge such information from Our servers.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may incorporate links to external websites not operated by Us. Upon clicking on a third-party link, You will be redirected to the corresponding site. It is strongly recommended to peruse the Privacy Policy of each website visited.

We disclaim authority over, and absolve ourselves from any responsibility concerning, the content, privacy policies, or practices of third-party websites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may periodically revise Our Privacy Policy. Notice of such amendments will be disseminated through email and/or conspicuous notice on Our Service, prior to the revised policy taking effect. You are advised to periodically review this Privacy Policy for updates.

Contact Us

For any inquiries or clarifications pertaining to this Privacy Policy, feel free to contact Us:

Email: info@uchef.ca